Update Info

SUSE-PackageHub-16.0-packagehub-90


Recommended update for micro-editor


Type: recommended
Severity: moderate
Issued: 2026-01-22
Description:
This update for micro-editor fixes the following issues:

Changes in micro-editor:

- Update to version 2.0.15:
  * truecolor (supersedes the MICRO_TRUECOLOR environment variable)
  * showchars (deprecates indentchar)
  * lockbindings for completely disallowing plugins to modify keybindings
  * helpsplit for changing default split type for the help command
  * pageoverlap for setting number of lines kept during page up/page down
  * Added FirstTab, LastTab, FirstSplit and LastSplit commands
  * SkipMultiCursorBack as a counterpart to SkipMultiCursor
  * CursorToViewTop, CursorToViewCenter, CursorToViewBottom
  * Duplicate for duplicating the selection only, not the whole line
  * Plugins never write to settings.json or bindings.json anymore
  * Add onBufferOptionChanged callback
  * Add SpawnCursorAtLoc()
  * Expose bufpane's DoubleClick and TripleClick to plugins
  * Pass mouse info to {on,pre}MouseXXX callbacks
  * Support goto statement from Lua 5.2
  * Various Syntax Highlighting improvements

- Update to version 2.0.14:
  * matchbracestyle to choose whether to underline or highlight matching braces
  * matchbraceleft to choose whether to match brace to the left of the cursor
  * hltrailingws to highlight trailing whitespace
  * hltaberrors to highlight tab vs space inconsistencies
  * Add jump command to perform a relative goto
  * Add sub-word movement actions and improve word movements
  * Add paragraph selection actions and improve paragraph movements
  * Make Shift-PageUp/Down the default keybindings for SelectPageUp/Down
  * Add signatures support to improve filetype detection in ambiguous cases
  * Provide default.yaml for default syntax highlighting
  * Improvements in syntax highlighting for various languages
  * More generic support for mouse events handling
  * Add mouse release and mouse drag events
  * Make MouseMultiCursor toggle cursors
  * Better support for handling mouse events in lua
  * Better API for lua timers
  * Add onAnyEvent callback
  * Allow colorschemes to include other colorschemes
  * Give user's files in ~/.config/micro/ precedence over micro's built-in
    files
  * Respect umask when creating files
  * Smarter smartpaste
  * Make default fileformat value suited to the OS
  * Improve buffer view relocation after jumping to a far-away location
  * Improve return values of some actions for better action chaining
  * Autocomplete filetypes
  * Allow raw escape sequence to be bound with bind
  * Various small improvements
  * Fix various crashes
  * Fix micro killed by SIGINT sent to its shell job
  * Various fixes for setting local options
  * Various fixes for reloading settings via reload command
  * Various fixes for updating settings after changing filetype
  * Fix unneeded rewriting of settings.json
  * Fix overwriting persistent non-default settings in settings.json with
    temporary default settings
  * Don't apply rmtrailingws on autosave
  * Don't autosave unmodified buffer
  * Properly update autosave timer when the autosave option value changes
  * Fix opening filenames including colons with parsecursor
  * Fix replace to be able to insert '$'
  * Fix cursor moving to an unexpected location after a redo
  * Make cursor movements after selection consistent
  * Fix incorrect buffer view after reloading file
  * Fix lost mouse release events in case the pane becomes inactive
  * Add proper locking to LineArray to fix potential races
  * Cleanup indentation and trailing whitespace
  * Improve plugin documentation


              

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Packages


  • micro-editor-2.0.15-bp160.1.1